What is the worst movie you've ever seen?

[Mastermindobu]

What do you think is the worst movie ever made and/or which one do you passionately despise the most?

The worst that I've ever seen is definitely Plan 9 from Outer Space, but I knew that it was supposed to be terrible going in. Bloodrayne is the movie that I talk bad about the most though, since I had never experienced an Uwe Boll masterpiece before.

[Jenga]

My list of worst/most hated movies..


Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Any Given Sunday
Battlefield Earth
BloodRayne
The Da Vinci Code
Dark Water
The Doors
Jerry Maguire
John Q
Hulk
Like Water for Chocolate
Meet Joe Black
My Fair Lady: Special Edition
Pretty Woman
Point Break
Speed
Van Helsing
Caddyshack 2
Analyze This
Cocktail
The Crow
Days of Thunder
Hanging Up
Life or Something Like It
Blow
Bruce Almighty
Con Air
Dark Water
Nurse Betty
Speed
Spider-Man 3
The Time Machine
The Truman Show
What Women Want
Dr. T & the Women
Wolf


A long list but the all deserve mentioning ;)

[moviemeh]

My worst movies--

Movies I Watched All the Way Through
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
Ocean's Eleven (2001)
Shakespeare in Love (1998)

Movies I Didn't Watch All the Way Through
Moulin Rouge (2001)
Failure to Launch (2006)
Deja Vu (1997) (This is the one with Victoria Foyt in it, not the one with Denzel)

[BeachBum]

Oceans 11 huh,

I'm not judging by any means... but it goes to show you how different people's tastes can be. It's not on my top ten, but I wouldn't put it at the bottom. Interesting.

[moviemeh]

Ocean's 11 is probably the best of my worst, I probably am a little harsh on it because it was so hyped

[BeachBum]

Yeah, I hate that. When you hear "how great this movie is" from everyone and you finally see it and at the end you're like ok... what's the big deal.

[BeachBum]

My list of worst movies... BTW some are just plain horrible and others because of the hype they got...

1. Killer Clowns from Outer Space
2. Superman Returns
3. Any Ben Affleck movie not directed by Kevin Smith
4. Mannequin
5. Masters of the Universe
6. Any Steven Segal movie (except Executive Decision... He dies in the first five minutes).
7. 10,000 BC
8. Daredevil/ Elektra
9. Dark Blue (After this movie, I lost all respect for Ving Rhames as a serious actor)
10. Robocop 3

[Chris]

The worst movie I've ever seen? There have been far to many candidates of late to name a single one. Altho The Life Aquatic would be right there at the top and I love Bill Murry's work mostly. But that stinker was one of those where you kept waiting for it to get better and it never did.

It seems lately film makers are of the idea that all you need are special effects or big name stars and we will come. It's almost like they keep chanting a mantra of "We dont need no story, We don't need no plot, all we need is special effect to get us to the top".

Hey don't get me wrong, I love good special effects, but I like a story too.

What ever happened to having a script where the actors drew you into the plot so you became so involved in the story that you couldn't wait to see what happened next? You know, one of those where it's suddenly over and your wondering where the last two hours went.

Instead today there are just too many that make you feel you've been being punished for some misdeed for the last 90+ minutes.

I'm truely beginning to think the wife is right when she says the film industry has simply run out of ideas for really good movies.

God, I hate to agree with her about things.

Maybe if I get her some special effects it won't be so bad.

[The Real Uncle Bob]

Today I finally saw a terrible movie that was first recommended to me by Michael Weldon (of Psychotronic) over 25 years ago. The Children concerns the ghastly events that occur after a school bus drives through a noxious cloud of gas...there's only a few kids on the bus, luckily (I'm surprised the filmmakers got any parents to trust them with their kids, but then, half the kids in the film have the same last name as the producer).

I'm going to have to provide some spoilers here, because the movie is so bad and so poorly paced, that no one would watch it through without a good reason.

The kids, though still normal-lookin', become radioactive zombies with an impulse to approach any adults thry encounter with arms outstretched, begging for huggsies! Their hugs, unfortunately, cook faster than a mivrowave, making their parents smoke up and their skin peel off!

Gale Garnett, a one-hit wonder with her Grammy-winning folk-rock smash "We'll Sing in the Sunshine," costars as the main hysterical Mom ("Don't shoot them!! They're just children!!!"). To be fair, Garnett went on to act in more dignified roles, including a brief role in My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

But the spoiler that made me anticipate The Children for 28 years was this: the local lawmen discover that bullet woulds do not stop the kids, or even slow them down! The only way to defeat their lethal hug is to sever their hands!

Some may find my ghoulish joy in this type of film difficult to comprehend, but keep in mind that children are very poor actors, especially when they are just normal kids recruited to be in dad's low-budget amateur production. Few directors have the heart to push a kid for a believable performance in such gruesome circumstance, so such horrible goings-on are good for nothing if not for laughs.

For this type of horribly guilty pleasure, "The Children" gets a strong recommendation, but not my strongest -- that is reserved for Beware! Children at Play, which is totally unwatchable except for the last ten minutes, which is an unending orgy of kid-killing featuring some of the worst pre-adolescent thespians ever to have a death scene.

[Pihk]

FINALLY, an actual bad movie.

This thread should more accurately be titled "What movie did I watch yesterday and not like so much"...

Oh, and Q'd. Godless pukes don't need a "good reason"...

[LipGloss666]

dungeons and dragons was such a bad movie that i did not bother to finish watching it. the grudge was so freakin' stupid as well. and that super retarded life aquatic or whatever the hell it was called was so freakin' retarded and not funny at all to me. also, the off season was ridiculous.

[salmon_lox]

The worst/most incompetently made/made me want to stop watching and throw up movie I have ever seen is an obscure, bottom of the barrel horror flick called "Terror Toons". I was an idiot, and cannot give a decent reason as to why I watched it, or continued to watch it once I realized what it truly was.

The movie(s) I despise the most are all enormous letdowns, as I was expecting much better from the directors (and, in once case, the source material):
1. Lady in the Water: the closest I have ever come to leaving the theater before the movie ended. Pretentious, nonsensical, obnoxious, this film convinced me of what I had feared and heard rumors of- that Shaymalan's success had gone to his head, and his quality was suffering.
2. A.I. Artificial Intelligence: ugh. This film was, for lack of a better word, gross. Not physically disgusting, but it just felt so wrong, and uncomfortably weird. A disappointment from Spielberg, but not significant enough to drag him down. Though, if it hadn't been for "Secondhand Lions", I would have hated Haley Joel Osment from there forth.
3. Superman Returns: I had conflicting feelings going into this one, and my gut instinct (i don't think so) turned out to be correct. This one missed the point, and had no heart to it. Clark Kent was an emotionless shell, Kate Bosworth was a horrible choice for Lois Lane, and Kevin Spacey (whom I normally love) added nothing new to Lex Luthor, but rather cast aside the humor and arrogance that Gene Hackman masterfully brought to the earlier incarnation. Humorless characters all. Ridiculous action sequences (that jet liner scene- don't even get me started) and a weird (and towards the end, creepy) feeling to the whole thing.

[Lester]

2. A.I. Artificial Intelligence: ugh. This film was, for lack of a better word, gross. Not physically disgusting, but it just felt so wrong, and uncomfortably weird.

I saw that in the theater with my gf and some others, and I couldn't leave. On DVD or TV, I would have turned it off, but I had to sit there. Not the worst film ever made, but as a personal matter, it was a painful experience.